Chapter 63

The eldest prince, who quickened his pace but was still the last, and Yinzuo finally reached a deal: "Okay, I'll cover for you to eat the ice bowl, but you have to talk to the emperor about this. I will definitely win it back next time."

Yin Zuo: "Of course. But what if you lose again next time, brother?"

The eldest prince grabbed Yinzuo's neck and said, "Don't say anything unlucky."

Yinzuo laughed loudly and pulled the eldest prince's hand: "My neck is itchy." Then he pushed the eldest prince and said with a look of disdain: "It's hot, and my eldest brother stinks."

Playing polo did make me sweat. The eldest prince was angry and said, "Don't you stink? It's like a crow flying on a pig's butt, it can only see the blackness of others but not its own!"

Yinzuo heard a sentence he had never heard before. He just said that he disliked the eldest prince and leaned over again: "What do you mean?"

So the two of them gathered together and whispered. Seeing the two of them talking endlessly, the prince walked around to the two of them, listened in, and looked at the eldest prince in condemnation: "What are you teaching? Sayings like 'eyes are not visible' and 'it's easy to know others, but difficult to know yourself' are better than what you taught?"

"At the very least, you can say 'it is important for people to know themselves'."

"What are you teaching? It's all corrupted."

The honorable Crown Prince dislikes vulgar slang. He wants Yinzuo to not only be eloquent when he grows up, but also to have the demeanor of a gentleman. He learned this from him when he was in elementary school!

He didn't want Xiaoliu to grow up and talk like a crow flying onto a pig's butt. The prince looked at the eldest brother with disgust. He didn't understand how the eldest brother could say that?

The eldest prince was already upset with the second brother because he lost to him today, and now he was scolded by the second brother like this. If they changed the subject, the eldest prince would have a quarrel with the second brother. But seeing Yinzuo's clear eyes looking at them curiously, he asked eagerly: "Can't I tell you?"

The eldest prince coughed and said, "Well, it's okay for you to know it, but you'd better not tell anyone else." He just happened to have accidentally heard someone else's phrase when he was out hunting last time, and he thought it was very interesting, but he only talked about it with Xiaoliu in private and would not say it to others.

He also maintained a very good image as the eldest prince to the outside world.

The eldest prince suddenly remembered that Xiaoliu was always a chatterbox in front of the emperor. Although the prince was annoying in everything, he really couldn't let Xiaoliu say these things in front of the emperor - since Xiaoliu entered the study, he had not been punished by the emperor for Xiaoliu's affairs, and he didn't want to let that happen again!

So the eldest prince lowered his head quickly, and this time emphasized to Yinzuo that he must not say this to other people again. The eldest prince whispered to Yinzuo not to say this in front of the Emperor.

The prince snorted softly, but it still reached the ears of the eldest prince, who gritted his teeth and endured. Today is an unlucky day, which is good for the second brother.

Kangxi, who was standing in front of him, glanced at the three of them. Seeing them walking together, he felt relieved. It was good that the brothers could keep their relationship even if they won or lost.

The first thing he did after returning to the palace was to take a bath. After taking a bath, he would go to his mother's place refreshed. Since his mother could not leave the palace, he would talk to her more about things outside the palace, and his mother also liked to listen to him.

Yinzuo and Defei talked about their team's victory with great joy, and also said that he was so popular that his two brothers fought over him to join the team!

“It’s just that I didn’t score.”

De Fei listened with a smile, her eyes full of love, and said: "That's not bad, after all, your team won in the end, and you must have contributed to it."

E'niang's compliment was mindless. Yinzuo remembered that he was very tired from running all over the field but didn't seem to have provided any help, so he felt embarrassed.

"Seventh brother is also good at playing basketball and even scored a goal."

Defei smiled and said, "Really? That's amazing." Defei had really not expected this. Because Yinzuo and the Seventh Prince were close, Defei was a little more familiar with the child, which was quite impressive.

"Fourth brother didn't score a goal either, so he was sulking with a sulky face." Yinzuo imitated his fourth brother's sulky expression, and he learned it about 70% correctly, but quickly said: "But I tickled his neck and he couldn't hold it anymore. He is as ticklish as I am."

Defei's expression changed slightly. She had long been able to listen to the Fourth Prince's affairs without changing her expression. It was only when she heard Yinzuo say that he was the same as her that her heart started beating wildly. Moreover, Defei paid more attention to Yinzuo. Seeing that Yinzuo looked normal, her expression quickly returned to normal.

She also didn't want Yinzuo to know the relationship between her and the Fourth Prince.

Time has passed, and now she has Yinzuo and Wenxian. Gradually, she feels that the man is not her son anymore. She even stops paying attention to his news. He is living a good life anyway.

"Big brother is very unwilling to accept his defeat." Yinzuo swallowed the rest of his words after saying this. He certainly couldn't just tell him that the eldest prince wanted to fight again and make an ice bowl deal with him.

Defei did not think much about the Fourth Prince's affairs, and her thoughts quickly turned away following Yinzuo's words. She began to worry about Yinzuo's close relationship with the Eldest Prince. Defei knew that Kangxi's most important person was of course the Crown Prince. It was said that during the grassland trip, the signs of the Eldest Prince and the Crown Prince being arrogant became more and more obvious. Defei always felt that there was an undercurrent, and whether it was not a good thing for the Sixth Prince to be close to the Eldest Prince.

Defei looked at Yinzuo again. In fact, her son was not much worse than others. Take the trip to the grassland for example. He was only a little old, but he accomplished something that his brothers had not done.

This time they went out to play polo with those children from Mongolia. The emperor has always attached great importance to the affairs of the Mongolian tribes.

Concubine De knew about her son's previous reputation. Everyone said that she had spoiled him, but good children can never be spoiled. Her son is still young, and he will only become more and more talented when he grows up.

They are all dragon sons, so her son doesn't have to curry favor with anyone.

Defei's heart suddenly started beating fast, but she suppressed it again. She touched Yinzuo's head and let out a breath softly. It was hard to have a truly indifferent heart while staying in the palace, even if she was copying scriptures. People could easily fall into insatiable desires if they were not careful.

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The phrase "desires are insatiable" is very accurate. Going out of the palace to play a game of polo with the children from the Mongolian tribe reminded people of Yinzuo who brought those Mongolian nobles' sons here. The third prince's mother, Rong Fei, said sourly and regretfully: "How come it wasn't my son who did this?"

The Third Prince said nothing and let his mother nag. His mother is always thinking about competing with others, so how could any good thing happen to him?

In fact, Rong Fei was not like this before. Many of her children died at birth, and she prayed that the children could survive. But now that her son is growing up and doing well, hasn't she gradually developed other thoughts in her heart?

The second princess, however, had no jealousy towards Yinzuo. She was also familiar with her younger brother, Xiaoliu, and liked him. She said to her mother, "Xiaoliu is likable and loves to make friends. It was you who said that you wanted my third brother to stay with the emperor more often so that he could see me more. Wouldn't my third brother have no time to do other things?"

The Second Princess was very interested in playing polo. She asked the Third Prince a lot about it. Finally, she said, "I don't know if my elder sister and I can go out of the palace to play polo together in the future. We can't play polo in the palace."

"We will compete with you then."

Before the Third Prince could speak, the Second Princess said, "Don't underestimate us. My elder sister and I are getting better and better at riding horses. Just wait, we will be able to surpass you in the future."

A new area was created in the palace for the princesses to go horseback riding, and the second princess liked it very much. She was lively and couldn't stay in the house at all, so she finally had an activity she liked to relieve her energy. Although the eldest sister and the third sister looked quiet, they also liked it.

It was Xiaoliu who first brought this up. Xiaoliu thought that as the elder sisters, the Second Princess would of course like this younger brother. When the Third Prince was about to leave, she asked him to bring some fruit juice to Yinzuo, saying, "Doesn't he like these sour and sweet things? Give it to him!"

"Let him watch us practice horse riding when he is free. And I, the second sister, am very good at whipping horses. I even created my own whip dance."

The Third Prince replied, "I know. I'll tell her."

Rong Fei hurriedly asked, "Aren't you riding a horse? Why are you whipping and dancing with the whip?"

The Second Princess and Concubine Rong laughed: "Oh, let's just play."

Rong Fei treated the Second Princess differently from the Third Prince. She was more indulgent towards the Second Princess. She fooled her with a few words and then looked at the Second Princess's rosy face, which looked much better than usual. In the end, she didn't say anything more.

But she knew that the Sixth Prince was also involved in the matter of setting up a horse training ground for the princesses, so she was still indignant. It was okay for the emperor to favor someone and give him some gifts, but now it seems that the Sixth Prince has a greater influence on the emperor than everyone thought, and the emperor listens to him! This makes people have to look at the Sixth Prince in a different light.

The emperor is too partial.

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"Brother, brother." Shaking off Ah Fu who was following him, Yinzuo ran to the eldest prince's yard.

"Hurry up and do what you promised me, Bingwan." Although the matter of leaving the imperial palace had not yet been discussed with the Emperor, Bingwan's promise had to be fulfilled.

The eldest prince said, "Okay, sit still and don't act like a thief."

Yinzuo finally had the ice bowl he had longed for at the eldest prince's place. It was covered with a layer of beautiful ice cubes, and the chilled fruit pieces were cool and refreshing. Yinzuo squinted his eyes while eating, and said to the eldest prince with a look of enjoyment: "It's so delicious! It tastes so much better when it's cooled down. It feels like it's not the same fruit anymore."

The eldest prince sneered: "Is it that exaggerated?"

Yinzuo nodded and ate with big mouthfuls of food, feeling touched. If he could eat it at any time, it might not be so rare, but now that he had finally been able to secretly eat it, it was so delicious to him.

Yinzuo was enjoying his meal, saying how nice his elder brother was, but the next moment someone snatched his bowl away. Yinzuo's eyes widened, unable to react.

The eldest prince took the bowl and filled it himself, saying to Yinzuo, "You have had enough of that. The rest is mine."

Yin Zuo: "Brother, if you want to eat it, ask someone to make it, don't steal it from me."

The eldest prince shook his head: "No, you can only eat those."

Yinzuo tried to grab the bowl, but the eldest prince lifted it up easily. Yinzuo tried to grab it but failed. He could only sigh and watch his eldest brother gobble up the rest in just a few bites.

He was not satisfied with the food and was very angry, but he would come again the next day. However, every time he went, his eldest brother would snatch away his food after eating only a few bites, which made Yinzuo very angry.

However, it was precisely because the eldest prince controlled the situation and did not allow Yinzuo to succeed in his greed that everything was safe and sound. The two of them did this secretly for a month without being discovered.

It's just that everyone was puzzled as to why Yinzuo went to the eldest brother every day.

Until the Eighth Prince saw them, he was stunned for a moment when he saw the two people fighting for the ice bowl, and then laughed: "So it's because of this that Sixth Brother keeps coming to Big Brother's place every day."

Yinzuo was nervous at first, but when he saw that it was his eighth brother who came, he relaxed. His eighth brother was a very reasonable and good brother.

Yinzuo then shouted to the Eighth Prince, "Eighth brother, come and help, let's hold down the eldest brother together, grab the ice bowl and eat together."

The eldest prince said, "Don't listen to him, Eighth Brother. He can't eat too much."

The eldest prince is also bad. Every time he gives a large bowl of iced food, he only gives a quarter of it to Yinzuo and eats the rest. Then you could also not give so much every time to make Yinzuo jealous.

But he refused to do so. He argued that it was not worth it to make such a small portion and that he would eat it anyway. He also wanted Yinzuo to understand one thing - what he ate was taken from his portion.

The eldest prince relied on his height, long legs and long arms to easily win the grab every time. It was very interesting to see the youngest prince jumping up and down with greed, and he ate it happily with the ice bowl as a condiment, so that the quarter he didn't eat was not a loss.

The Eighth Prince smiled and spread his hands towards Yinzuo, indicating that there was nothing he could do.

But the eighth prince's smiling eyes fell on the two people fighting in front of him, his eyes deepened a little, and he sighed in his heart. The sixth brother was about to jump on the eldest brother's back, and his hands were about to strangle the eldest brother's neck and try hard to reach the eldest brother's raised hand, but the eldest brother just smiled and calmly changed the ice bowl to hold it in one hand, and his smiling face revealed a kind of indulgence and closeness.

Although he was raised by Concubine Hui, he should have been closer to his eldest brother, and their relationship was indeed good on weekdays. But when he saw his eldest brother and Little Six playing around in front of him, he didn't know why, but he always felt that there was something different between him and his eldest brother, and the difference was obvious as soon as they were compared.

His older brother would not tease or play with him like this, and he would not jump onto his older brother's back.

Maybe the reason they are closer is because he was raised by Concubine Hui, and the reason they cannot be too close is also because he was raised by Concubine Hui. And because of his impure attitude, his elder brother's attitude towards him will not be pure either.

My eldest brother’s mother is one of the four concubines, and my eldest brother is the eldest prince, which is completely different from him. So, forget it, if he can’t do it, then he can’t do it.

It's not bad like this now.

(End of this chapter)